A tribute to Howard Pierce, published in San Louie magazine.

 

The text reads: “Howard Pierce was a southern California  modernist, born in Chicago in 1912. He worked mostly in clay. A wide range of animals took shape in his hands, their witty, streamlined forms demonstrating the sculptor’s keen understanding of the exchange between design and form. As an artist weaned on vector graphics software I was quick to recognize the rhythm of bézier curves in his pieces, and subsequently rendered them as vector line and shape in an homage to Pierce. Contemporary tools for a master whose work was timeless. Pierce died in 1994, leaving behind a ceramics studio in Joshua Tree.”